Friday, October 7, 2022

Global Surgery Symposium

9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Jeremiah G. Turcotte Surgical Library

Taubman Health Center

Hosted by the Michigan Center for Global Surgery

Agenda

  • 9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.: Welcome and opening remarks (Dr. Krishnan Raghavendran & Dr. Justin Dimick)
  • 9:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.: Cleft Care Abraod: Is Multidisciplinary Team Care Realistic? (Dr. Ron Aronovich)
  • 9:45 a.m. -10:15 a.m.: Cancer Screening - Does One Fit All? (Dr. Gifty Kwakye)
  • 10:15 a.m. -10:45 a.m.: Training Surgical Sub-Specialists in Sub-Saharan Africa (Dr. Jeffrey Punch)
  • 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: Perspectives on Building Cardiac Surgery in Underserved Countries (Dr. Gorav Ailawadi)
  • 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Surgical Education in Global Surgery (Dr. Grace Kim)
  • 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Volunteering Abroad (Dr. Robert Gilman)
  • 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: The Promise of Global Academic Department Collborations (Dr. Mark Prince)
  • 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Building Relationships in Global Surgery (Dr. Andrew Chang)
  • 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.: Evaluating LFR - Prehospital Development in Low-Mid Income Countries (Zach Eisner and Peter Delaney)
  • 2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Global Health and Neurosurgery (Dr. Venkatakrishna Rajajee)